Posted on 08/01/2012 12:45:19 PM PDT by dps.inspect
We just learned that Amazon or Amazon's president is donating $2.5 million to support gay marriage activists' efforts. Because of this, I cannot do business with them any more. Just prior to their announcement, I purchased my wife the Kindle Fire... Q, can you get books and such from other sources for the Kindle?
Somebody out there with conservative leanings, some money and business knowhow needs to start a business like Amazon but with at least a neutral political stance if not more conservative. After the Chick-fil-A thing, ya gotta know that business would do very well, and I'd be happy to give them my business.
Sure. I buy books from Books A Million, convert them with the free Calibre utility, and read them on my Kindle Touch all of the time. You are not locked into Amazon’s format.
Really? Bought up when?
Abebooks was there long before Amazon. Originally Canadian. But they’re really only a facilitator network spanning hundreds of used-book sellers. There’s a number of similar networks.
The stupid e-books are outselling printed books two-to-one. Bookstores are the new dinosaurs.
I’m not interested in ebooks, but in the last two or three years I have ordered thousands of dollars worth of shop tools, appliances, electronics, etc from Amazon. They seem to have become the “mail order Sears” of the 21st century. I also have been considering what to go to for these kinds of needs. I guess I will just have to do more extensive online searches from now on.
Doesn’t make it much smarter, I’m afraid.
I see Amazon did its grab of Abebooks in 2008. Lots of bad stuff going down that year.
Does anyone know whether Barnes and Noble has given money to or other wise supported the gay marriage activists? If I close out my Amazon account and go to B and N am I just making a sideways move??
Here in Texas they ‘donated’ $100M of our money to the state coffers - by agreeing to charge sales tax. So we’re through with them. At this point I still use their site, but then I look elsewhere (after checking reviews and finding model numbers). Often I can beat the daylights out of their prices anyway (at least on non-book items).
The Chik-fil-A issue wasn't about gay marriage, it was about freedom of speech, and freedom of belief.
If we are now to boycott everyone who believes in gay marriage, or everyone who gives money to gay causes, are we going to eventually boycott Chik-fil-A because they don't descriminate in hiring? How about Fox News Channel if it's proven that they have a gay guy on the air?
How are we different from them, other than that we're right?
Denial of freedom to the goose is, to abuse the old saw, denial of free speech to the gander. Our protest should be against the denial, not the honking of one or the other.
I ate at Chik-fil-A once this week, and brought home some of their great chicken two other days, in support of Cathy's right to be a Christian and say so.
I bought two Kindle "Daily Deals" from Amazon, too -- not in support of their founder's position, but because I got the best deals there. I'm not going to boycott them and get my reading materials elsewhere, or steal them from a Torrent site, just because they believe in gay marriage, or even [gasp!] exercise their right of free speech by sending money to gay causes.
How can we scream about it when the libs do things like the Chik-fil-A boycott, then maintain any pretense of credibility when we do the same things? This is Free Republic, folks. That means something to me.
Just sayin'...
When they see the inactivity in your account they will know.
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